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Subject: Re: Apache CouchDB is Alive and Kicking
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you should make this a blog post so that I can link to it :)
On Nov 30, 2011, at November 30, 20119:43 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> Apache CouchDB is Alive and Kicking
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> =93The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.=94 =97 Mark Twain
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> In the past days at the end of November 2011, a few news items hit the
> tech scene that suggested that the Apache CouchDB project is done for.
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> We, the Apache CouchDB team, are writing to you today: do not worry,
> the project is alive and well.
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> Canonical and Ubuntu One
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> In 2009 Canonical decided to base the data sync feature of their =
Ubuntu
> One project on Apache CouchDB. Its goal was to allow seamless synchro-
> nisation of personal data between different computers and devices and =
their cloud hosting service. A use-case that seemed perfect for
> CouchDB at the time, and we consider that still to be the case.
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> Individuals from the CouchDB team have worked closely with the =
dev-elopers at Canonical to help making Ubuntu One a success. At some
> point in the past, these individuals developed patches to adapt =
CouchDB
> to certain Ubuntu One use cases. These patches diverged from the main
> CouchDB code base.
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> Over time, it became harder and harder to reconcile these changes with
> the main CouchDB code base, so fixing bugs and rolling out new =
features
> from more recent CouchDB release took a lot more time and energy.
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> At some point in the near past, we presume, Canonical decided to not
> pursue this any further. And we respect that decision and we wish them
> best with their development of their new U1DB, which is a database-
> agnostic API that takes after CouchDB's API, but is tied closer
> to their particular feature set.
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> We'd like to thank Canonical for officially endorsing this part of the
> message.
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> =93The company behind CouchDB=94
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> During the development of Ubuntu One, Cannonical worked with =
Couchbase,
> who happen to employ some of CouchDB's committers. In a recent an-
> nouncement, they erroneously described Couchbase as the company behind
> CouchDB. We'd like the set the record straight by saying that this =
isn't
> the case. CouchDB is an Apache Software Foundation project and has no
> corporate sponsor.
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> We are fortunate enough to have a number of companies who employ our
> committers or sponsor individual people to work on the project. These
> people, however, contribute to the project as individuals, regardless =
of
> their involvement with Cloudant, Couchbase, Enki Multimedia, Iris =
Couch,
> or any other corporate entity.
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> The Future
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> Apache CouchDB will continue to build great database technology and
> release stable, mature and trustworthy releases for our developers to
> build great applications on.
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> We want to thank everybody for their support and look forward to a =
great
> future!
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> On behalf of the The Apache CouchDB Project Management Committee,
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> Jan Lehnardt,
> Chairman
> --=20
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